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Cover of The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

✍ Scribed by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Year
2016;2014
Tongue
English
Weight
420 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1935955160

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's debut novel for young adults is a bittersweet story about death, family, and the resilient emotional strength of the human heart. Chela Gonzalez, the book's narrator, is a nerd and a soccer player who can barely contain her excitement about starting the sixth grade. But nothing is as she imagined--her best friend turns on her to join the popular girls and they all act like Chela doesn't exist. She buries herself in schoolwork and in the warm comfort of her family. To Chela, her family is like a solar system, with her father the sun and her mother, brothers, and sister like planets rotating all around him. It's a small world, but it's the only one she fits in.

But that universe is threatened when her strong father has a stroke. Chela's grandmother moves in to help the family. The smell of her old lady perfume invades the house. That smell is worse than Sundays. Sundays were sad, but they went just as sure as they came. Death was a whole...

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